{"id":6642,"date":"2025-07-18T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6642\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:17:19","slug":"winnipeg-jets-sign-forward-gabriel-vilardi-to-six-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6642\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets sign forward Gabriel Vilardi to six-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have signed\u00a0forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/gabriel-vilardi\/8480014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Vilardi<\/a> to a six-year contract extension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi, 25, recorded 27 goals and 61 points in 71 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> last season. He added a goal and four points in nine playoff games before his team was eliminated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 centre is coming off a two-year, $6.88 million contract that carried an annual cap hit of $3.44 million and was a restricted free agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi was acquired by the Jets, along with forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-iafallo\/8480113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Iafallo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/rasmus-kupari\/8480845\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmus Kupari<\/a>, and a draft pick from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pierre-luc-dubois\/8479400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> in June of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted 11th overall by the Kings in 2017, Vilardi has 90 goals and 175 points in 270 career games split between the Kings and Jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingston, Ont., native represented Canada at the 2021 World Championship, taking home a gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets have signed\u00a0forward Gabriel Vilardi to a six-year contract extension on Friday. Vilardi, 25, recorded 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}